National Medical Products Administration (NMPA)
Is MOTS-c legal in China?
Not approvedNot an approved medicine in China; unlawful to sell as a drug, and it is named on the WADA banned list.
Not approved as a medicine here.
MOTS-c has no NMPA approval that we could find and no application in CDE's public register. Producing or importing it as a drug without approval is prohibited by Article 98 of the Drug Administration Law. The WADA Prohibited List names MOTS-c among banned metabolic modulators for athletes.
Last verified 2026-09-29 · how we verify
MOTS-c elsewhere
Sources (3)
- 01Drug Administration Law of the PRC (中华人民共和国药品管理法)National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) · 2019-08-26 · accessed 2026-09-29
- 02CDE public register of accepted drug applications (受理品种目录浏览)Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE), NMPA · 2026-09-29 · accessed 2026-09-29
- 03The Prohibited List (2026)World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) · 2026 · accessed 2026-09-29